Features

Universal Shop Floor Control Interface

Want to automate shop floor or go paperless?

Predator Desktop was designed to automate the shop floor. Desktop’s power lies in its job tracking functionality to automate manual or tedious processes, which saves time and increases effectiveness. Desktop’s simplicity translates into increased productivity for operators and machinists. Because every manufacturer has different needs, Desktop's shop floor control interface can be customized and extended to match specific user requirements. Some of the more common uses of Desktop include machine monitoring, data collection, viewing CAD files, viewing setup sheets, browsing corporate intranets, organizing CNC programs, managing shop floor files, collecting data for your ERP or MRP system, DNC communications, and more. 

Desktop Explorer™

Frustrated with hard to use document control software?

Predator Desktop™ keeps things simple with it’s Microsoft Office^® and Windows^® Explorer compatible user interface. Desktop Explorer is the Universal Shop Floor Control Interface with Microsoft Internet Explorer seamlessly integrated! Secure browsing is a reality now. Desktop Explorer includes standard features for drag and drop, shortcut menus, cut, copy & paste, object based menus, toolbars, tool tips, and online help. And like DNC Explorer™, the entire document control interface allows you to completely customize exactly how you want users to work with the software, how the CNCs are physically configured, and much more. 

Secure Browsing

Tired of shuffling through stacks of documents?

Predator Desktop uses a secure browser to bring the power of Internet/extranet integration and paperless manufacturing to the shop floor by supporting the latest HTML standards. Users can surf specific administrator-defined Internet and intranet sites for shop floor documents, and reduce the amount of paper setup documents, blueprints, and more. A corporate intranet enables manufacturers to distribute work instructions, travelers job schedules, best practices, ISO 900x processes, six sigma quality procedures, machine safety instructions, human resource records and other documents electronically. Manufacturing intranets insure that the shop floor has access to the latest revision of all appropriate documentation and forces manufacturing engineers to document the process.

Shop Floor Security

Who’s accessing the corporate network and its job resources?

Predator Desktop enables administrators to define users and groups with specific privileges for every resource and function, including intranets and web sites. Users that log on to Desktop have access to only those folders, machines, resources, functions and URLs defined by their administrator.

Secure Document Viewing

Need to view documents on the shop floor?

Predator Desktop supports fully integrated secure document viewing for Microsoft Office^® files, 2D and 3D CAD files, bitmap files, and text files, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, DWG, DXF, JPG, GIF, TIF, and BMP. Three-D CAD support includes dynamic rotation, zoom, pan, fit, and more. Document viewing is fully integrated within Predator Desktop. By default, Predator Desktop does not launch a third party viewer, although third party viewers can be added for special file formats.

Internet/Intranet Email

Need feedback from lights-out operation or improved workflow between departments?

Predator Desktop lets you automatically e-mail key personnel at the beginning or completion of hot jobs. Using Remote Request, operators can e-mail any department directly from their CNC. You control e-mail use and security, while improving shop floor communication efficiencies.

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